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A19954	Two sermons preached at the assises holden at Carlile touching sundry corruptions of these times / by L.D. ...	Dawes, Lancelot, 1580-1653.	1614 (1614)	STC 6389; ESTC S320	64,296	158

life in all godlinesse and honestie God knows better what is meet for christians thē the Anabaptists do He knows that we are strangers on earth not angels in heaven And being g 1. Pet. 2.11 strangers and pilgrims stand in as great need of these helps as of fire of water of aire of apparell of any thing which is necessary for the sustentation of our liues seeing that they are not only the meanes that we are partakers of all these while they effect that we may liue togither in civill societie but also the promoters of true religion the advācers of vertue the rewarders of piety the punishers of sin the destroiers of Idolatry superstition and al misdemeanours amongst Christians So that as God saide vnto Samuel concerning the Iewes whē they disliked their present government h 1. Sam. 8.7 they haue not cast thee awaie but they haue cast mee away that I shoulde not reigne over them so I may say of these fanaticall spirits it is not the Magistrate but God himselfe whom they haue reiected that he should not reigne over thē Vse 2 6 There is an other sort of men who though not directly with the Anabaptists yet indirectly by a consequent crosse my propositiō I meane the Papists These doe not altogither take away the civill Magistrate but they tie his thummes abbridge his autority It must be only in temporalibus for spirituall matters hee must haue no more dea●ings with thē thē i 2. Sam. 6● Vzza had to touch the arke of God This they willingly grant that the magistrats are Gods but as the Aramits said of the Israelites k 1. King 20.28 that their Gods were Gods of the mountaines not Gods of the vallies so say they the civill Magistrates are Gods of the mountaines and not Gods of the vallies they are Gods of the Laity but not of the Clergie This is naught in respect of that which followeth For whereas God challengeth this as a prerogatiue vnto himselfe to bestow kingdomes on whomsoever he wil and placeth the Princes of the earth in authoritie next vnto himselfe this they haue perforce taken from God and bestowed it vpon him that l 2. Thess 2.4 sitteth in the temple of God and advanceth himselfe aboue all that are called Gods It is hee to whom if yee will beleeue him his parasites all power is committed both in heaven and in earth He is that King of kings Lord of Lords by whom Princes rule and on whom the right of kings dependeth all nations must fall downe before him and al kingdomes must doe him homage The greatest Monarch of the earth must prostrat himselfe before him kisse his holy feet The Emperour if he be present when he taketh horse must hold the bridle when hee lighteth hee must hold the right stirrup when hee walketh hee must beare vp his traine when hee washeth hee must hold the bason when hee would be borne he must be one of the 4 that must carie him vpon their shoulders in a golden chaire 7 And as hee takes vpon him to giue kingdomes to whomsoever he will like the Divell who told our Saviour Christ m Luk 4.6 that all the kingdomes of the world were his and hee gaue them to whomsoever he would wherevpon saith an ancient father n Irenaeus mentitur diabolus quia cuius iussu homines creantur huius iussu reges constituuntur the divell is a liar for by whose autoritie men were created by his are kings appointed as he takes vpon him I say to giue kingdomes at his pleasure so wil he take them away when he liketh So farre is he from that obedience reverēce which every soule should giue to the higher power Who knoweth not that o Chron. Charion lib. 3. Leo Isaurus for putting in execution a decree of a Councill held at Constantinople in his time touching the taking away of images was first excommunicated and then depriued of al his revenewes in Italie That Pope Zacharie deposed Childericke the French king that he might gratifie Carolus Mertellus and his sonne Pipin That the proud Venetiā pedler p Bonfin rerum Vng. dec 4. l. 1. Paul the second by a publique edict depriued of crown and kingdome George the king of Bohemia because hee was an Hussite stirred vp Mathias the king of Hungarie his son in law to war against him What shall I tell you of the indignities offered in our owne land against Henry the second and Iohn king of England or of the buls of Pius Quintus sent against Queene Elizabeth of never dying memorie whereby hee hath excōmunicated her absolued her subiects from their oaths of allegiance stirred vp rebellions in these middle parts of Britaine and taken vpon him to bestow the regall diademe vpon strangers God bee thanked q Ps 2.4 he that dwels in heaven and of right challengeth the autoritie of disposing the kingdomes of this worlde to himselfe laughed all their devises to scorne● So that his Canons though they made a terrible noise yet no bullet was felt And his Bulls which sometimes had such a terrible aspect that a whole provinciall Synod durst scarse vēture to baite them proved such cowardly dastards that every single adversarie hath beene ready to tugge them Much resembling the counterfeite shews of Semiramis when shee warred against the king of India which a far off seemed to be Elephants Dromedaries but when they were throughly tried proved nothing but Oxen hides stuffed with strawe r Apoc. 16.7 Even so Lorde God Almightie true and righteous are thy iudgementes Vse 3 That I may cut off this first brāch of my text my third last inferēce shal cōcern you R. H. whom the Lord hath placed at the seat of iudgment Haue Magistrates their authoritie frō God this concernes you in your places as wel as the greatest potētate of the earth And therfore as on the one side it should be incouragment vnto you to hold on in all godly courses ye haue begunne so on the other side it should worke in you an humble thākfull acknowledgement of so rare a benefit Say not then within your selues that it was your owne deserts the excellencie of your wits the ripenesse of your iudgements the deepnesse of your knowledge in the laws the integrity of your persons that did advāce you vnto those roomes It was none of al these it was God alone that did promote you If these were meanes of your preferment yet haue yee nothing whereof yee can iustly boast because yee haue them al from him For Dei dona sunt quaecunque bona sunt Vse then your places as received from him acknowledge God to be the author of your advancement and say with ſ Luk 1. Mary in her Song hee that is mighty hath done great things for vs and holy is his name And so much of the first proposition The second followeth Magistrates are Gods deputies